Author: Mr j smith
Date: 11:07:29 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 13:02:31, Joachim Rang wrote: >Hi, > >obviously you did not know the facts. On the websites chessbase.com and >chessbase.de there were prior to the release and a few days after a wrong >advertisement which claimed that J8 will also include the versions which were >used in New York. There are several printed ads too, which claimed that. > >To take your example: This would be a similiar situation, if Mercedes Benz >advertized its new S-Class in two versions, claiming that each version will have >air conditioning system. Now you buy the cheaper one and notice that there is no >air conditioning system. You ask Mercedes what is the reason and the say, sorry >it was a mistka of our marketing department. We corrected the advertisments and >sorry your version has no air conditioning system. > >Every court in every country will give you the right in such a case, to either >give your product back or to get compensation for the lack of an assured >characterisitc of the product. > >Do you agree? > >On June 18, 2003 at 12:50:24, Mr j smith wrote: > >>For those who continue to insist that Chessbase has wronged them by not >>including 2 free engines with their purchase of Junior 8, in the face of the >>plain meaning of the advertisments (which clearly state that only Deep Junior >>purchasers receive the 2 free engines ), in contrast to the ambiguous cd covers, >>and example from the real world may help show why your whining will fail to >>bring you satisfaction. >> >>Suppose that a franchise holder of Mercedes Benz automobiles places an ad in >>various newspapers and by accident the people in charge of the advertising copy >>switch prices and certain details of a Mercedes Benz with a plain old Ford >>sedan. In my example instead of selling for $50,000 the Benz was advertised for >>$10,000. >> >>Do you think it would be both fair and legal for Mercedes Benz to honor such a >>mistake? Of course not. There is no court in the United States that would >>honor such an obvious mistake, and in the United States, there is the UCC >>(Uniform Commercial Code) which deals with such issues. >> >>From the examples of advertised print that I have seen it would seem that there >>was a mistake on the part of the advertisement department of Chessbase, which >>Chessbase almost immediately rectified. The mistake however is only >>superficial; the CD cover. A careful reading of all the ad copy clearly states >>that only Deep Junior 8 was offering 2 free engines, not Junior8. No, unfortunately for you, I am not wrong. The printed ads I have seen here do not give rise to any claim on the part of purchasers of Junior8. Chessbase made a mistake and almost immediately rectified the ads. Furthermore, if you carefully read the ads, which for some reason you refuse to do, it is clear that the 2 free engines come only with deep junior, not junior 8.
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